St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21

and William streets, stole down to
Chief of Police HOrsey and said:
20 BRIEN IS SAFE WITH Me-
THANK GOd!" exclaimed the crowd.
Chief Horsey, with Mayor Carson and
SIX policemen, then went to Devlin's
house and brought back O'Brien to the
burnett house. The latter reached
Devlin's house in this way. The alley
way at Newman's afforded shell
hats with O'Brien, Just as
stone struck O'Brien on the back of the
neck, and Just as big, powerful Or
angeman with clubwas going to cleaye
open his skull. The house of an Orange
man named Connely adjOined this alley
on the other side, and OBrien got in
there. lie was finally struggled back
wards to Devlin's house while the Or
aEge mob was outside yelling for
ms ms h Dio9d; u will protect you to
tle MOTEL, " said Mayor Carson. II will
call out the artillery ',You willr' ex-
claimed OBrien, sarcastically. II don't
want your protection now. You saw
the mob OF demons, 300 strong. outside
that hall thirsting for my blood while I
was addressing peaceable meeting.
and you didn't dispense them. Where
was your artillery then, sir? Lansdowne
and Rowland winked at the
. EEf OhI 10 MURDER ME
III Toronto and now Lansdowne and Won
wink at efforts to murder me here. | am
not going to give you the credit of a
pretense of having probated my life
when you could have if you would but
didn't" The mayor said no more. The
policemen acted just the same as those
at Toronto. In the early part of the
evening they would not permit any
O'Brienites to wait Oh the sidewalk out
side the hall, and even said,
Move on" to the American
correspondents awaiting O'Brien's ar,
rival, but the moment the Orangemen'
appeared on the opposite side of the Z
street, many with clubs and sticks in
hands, there was no interference by the
police. They were allowed to hiss and
groan until OBrien came out. When
the latter did come out the policemen,
instead of making circle around him
abandoned him and left him to the ten
der mercies of the yelling Orangemen,
who dashed upon him. The POI
llcemen were the first to scat
ter when the stone-throwing
commenced. The mob remained OUT.
side the hall two hours waiting TO kill
OBrlen. A man named Rowland had |,
his cheek laid open with blow of
stone. Sargent Nesbitt's head was cut. j
The Nationalist were unorganiZed and
not prepared for the attack. being de-
ceived by the extraordinary cool
ness and treachery of the Orange
men. AT the Bennett house the crowd
collected around O'Brien congratulate
ing him on his escape. He was g,
SCARCELY ABLE TO STAND ;
on his feet. His throat was full of dust
and his clothes despatched. He said -
Il will go through to the end. bows. :.
yet" One incident will show how the
police acted: When Mr.. O'Brien
staggered into the alleyway. after
being struck in the neck
with stone, policeman in
the middle of the street said to rioter,
Il saw you do that but he never at
tempted to arrest him and he was al
lowed to join his friends, who shouted
i'll triumph, hes gone dog this time,'
meaning O'Brien. O'Brien and party
start tomorrow morning for Hamilton,
where meeting will be held Monday.
He will spend Sunday at Niagara Falls.